All right thanks. I looked around in the settings that you mentioned previously but I’m not finding much to do that. Do you have any suggestions for further research or instructions on how to set that automation up?

As someone who has experienced a bad trip, you absolutely nailed this response. The truth is, it can be caused by internal or external factors, and those factors could be minor or major.

A car window is possible to open, which means that it "hangs" in a contraption in the door that disconnects it from the car a bit. And because the window would break eventually if it wasn't "rubbered up" a bit, it's also protected from vibrations.

A bus window, on the other hand, is an important part of the side of the bus in the regard that the bus needs at least a few windows to be intact, otherwise the roof will not be properly supported. In that kind of construction, you WILL feel the vibrations more, because you are literally leaning against the side of the bus when you lean against the window.

Makes sense, most of my current birds are just happy that there's food out, especially because of the lil snow storm we just got

Certain species of birds will eat berries, others do not. Then,there are species who eat live prey, like robins eating worms. I live to the east of you in Ontario Canada, and my wife and I purchase whatever suet cakes are cheapest at a given time. The local flocks seem to like whatever we put out, as we regularly see 30-50 birds hanging around each time we refill the feeders.

TL/DR: I imagine most of the "variety" is more about marketing than anything else. The suet itself is the primary food source, anyway.

Dang bro, you could talk anyone out of a bad trip.

Most car windows have rubber seals glass that prevents the glass from hitting the metal. The glass in bus windows have metal frames that slide up and down in a metal track. The metal against metal causes vibrations that are not dampened like car windows.

Car windows are much more better built for a variety of reasons, while bus windows aren't.

Car windows are designed to resist being pulled around without power for security reasons, the window tracks and actuators are very tight. Bus windows don't need that and are just tempered glass panes put on a sliding track or regular window frames.

Bus windows are also much bigger, their natural frequencies being lower and closer to the engine/road vibrations making them easier to go into harmonic oscillations when on the road. Perhaps the frequency didn't match when driving, but it definitely did when you lean on it like pressing the string on a guitar, making it vibrate with the engines.

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No worries! Like I said, was just curious about that.

I’m sorry, I have no idea. I didn’t work there long and don’t even remember the name of the company that I worked for lol. It was under the table for a couple weeks.

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Oh weird! If you don't mind me asking, was this a chain store, or just like a single owner single location? You don't have to name it lol, I'm just curious cuz I haven't heard of something like being done before

It was prepackaged in giant bags and we were putting it in individual packages to be sold in stores.

Oh interesting! Were you and your coworkers making the suet by hand, or were they prepackaged, and you had to bundle them? (or something else?)

Anecdotal, but I briefly worked packaging suet to be sold at pet stores. There were 3 different “flavors” (berry, holiday, and something else I think) and they were all the exact same thing in different packages. I don’t remember what brand it was.

A semicolon joins two complete and related ideas.

"I need to buy some things; I'm having a party."

A colon CAN join two complete ideas. The first idea must be complete, and the second should be a list, or a definition or explanation of the first idea. Sometimes it's used to introduce a name.

"I need to buy some things: napkins, drinks, and ice."

"I'm having a party: a gathering of friends, with dancing and snacks."

"You might know one of my guests: Shakira."

I typically think of it this way: use a colon when the second clause clarifies or adds context to the first clause; use a semicolon when the two clauses are related but one isn’t modifying the meaning of the other. To me that’s really the key: the choice depends on how you want to adjust the relationship between the two clauses. It’s a bit like putting different colored lenses over an image to adjust its mood or something.

(Note that I’m talking specifically about using colons and semicolons to join two independent clauses here. There’s lots of other uses for both marks. I also acknowledge that employing some of those other users here is potentially confusing and I apologize for that. It’s just the way I talk. I can’t help it.)

Yup. Colons, semicolons, and commas have a lot of overlap. There aren’t rigid divisions between their use and a lot of situations where some or all of them are valid.

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That’s exactly the difference between a colon and a semicolon.

A colon explicitly relates the two statements. In your example, a colon would indicate that he spent three hours in the library because he couldn’t find the book. A semicolon would leave it open to interpretation: he couldn’t find the book, but that’s not necessarily why he spent three hours in the library.

So yes you can use them in the same sentence but not interchangeably. They have different meanings

This aint right, see my comment

That’s a great question. I’d need to look it up to give a more precise answer, which might or might not end up being an “ELI5” answer. But it seems like a semicolon works better in that spot because there is more of a pivot than a continuation.

I can see how we might view the second clause as a continuation: it does give more information. His inability to find the book is the reason why he spent so long in the library.

But it really seems like more of a contrasting situation. If he spent that long in the library, we would expect him to find the book that he wanted; however, he didn’t.

It seems like a semicolon works well in your example because we can so easily slide the word “however” into that sentence: “Sandip spent three hours in the library; however, he couldn’t find the book he wanted.”

If you think that a colon conveys the meaning that you’re aiming for, the word “because” probably conveys that even more clearly: “Sandip spent three hours in the library because he couldn’t find the book he wanted.”

Actual fantastic advice and quote!

"Bad batch" means one ate mushrooms that aren't psilocybe. I've done that before. When I was a teenager, we gathered our own mushrooms from a cow pasture near my high school and I once made the mistake of picking a few of the wrong species. But they're not going to cause a bad trip, per se. They'll cause physical discomfort and vomiting, and that can in turn cause a bad trip as a result of the emotional distress. But it's not a physiological phenomenon in the sense of being directly neurochemically induced. It's not like the psilocybin "goes bad" and causes a bad trip the way food goes bad and causes vomiting.

In other words, the psychological phenomenon of the bad trip occurs as a mirror image of the physiological phenomenon of the food poisoning. And since vomiting is a common occurrence at the beginning of trips, it's useful to learn to accept that "purging phase" without panicking and spiraling into a bad trip from the fear of potential food poisoning. Just trust your body to be able to process what you've put in it and you'll come out the other side all the stronger. It's important to learn the basics of the science involved with tripping. For example, the physiology of food poisoning and what one's body does to deal with it. Knowledge is power and it will help you overcome fear borne of the unknown. If you go to the hospital, they're just going to pump your stomach and rehydrate you intravenously. It's scarcely different from what you're already naturally going to want to do instinctually, which is vomit and drink lots of water.

And ultimately, if you are actually poisoned, there's not much anybody can do for you. Accept the L and die with grace on the forest floor. It's better than dying in a hospital bed surrounded by cops and moms. At least, that's my personal opinion.